and i thank the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: sometimes we wonder who is in charge of this administration, because somebody has to figure it out. i was happy to hear president obama to say, i don't want you to asues ambassador rice and the president apparently indicating that she was given the information that jass untrue and if she didn't know the statements she was told by the white house to go out and tell were not truths, then she was not lying, and she should be given credit for not lying if she didn't know that the untruths she were telling were untrue. it raises more and more questions, you know, who is in charge there? the president coming to meetings over crises and not knowing who is going to be coming to brief him on things. and a strong leader would say, i want to hear from this person, this person, this person. who's making the decisions? who does know what's true and not true in this administration? who can we depend on at 3:00 in the morning when we have public servants who have been set in harm's way to d